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Byron C. Jaeger
I am an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and work in the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
My research focuses on blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, and machine learning.
Education
PhD, Biostatistics
Gilling’s School of Global Public Health
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2017 - 2012
- Thesis: Extending R-squared to the Generalized Linear Mixed Model
- Honors: Recipient of ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama
Present - 2017
- Investigating mechanisms of cardiovascular disease and hypertension
- developing machine learning algorithms to identify who may benefit from initiating antihypertensive medications
Teaching Experience
BST 680: Introduction to R
University of Alabama at Birmingham
N/A
Present - 2017
- Students develop core competencies in data analysis (import, clean, transform, visualize, and tabulate) using
R. - Course structure promotes interactive lectures and group exercises.
- Final exam: a comprehensive research project using
R markdown.
Selected R Packages
table.glue
Make and Apply Customized Rounding Specifications for Tables
N/A
2020
- GitHub Repository
- Total downloads: 1,240
obliqueRSF
Oblique random survival forest (ORSFs)
N/A
2020 - 2018
- GitHub Repository
- Total downloads: 11,236
r2glmm
Compute model and semi-partial R-squared for mixed models
N/A
2020 - 2016
- GitHub Repository
- Total downloads: 26,168
- Total citations: 124
Selected Publications
Trends in blood pressure control among US adults with hypertension, 1999-2000 to 2017-2018
P Muntner, ST Hardy, LJ Fine, BC Jaeger, …
JAMA, 324 (12), 1190-1200
N/A
2020
- Citations: 19
- DOI: 10.1001/jama.2020.14545
Impact metrics (In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric)
Oblique Random Survival Forests
BC Jaeger, DL Long, DM Long, M Sims, JM Szychowski, …
Annals of Applied Statistics, 3 (2019), 1847-1883
N/A
2019
- Citations: 1
- DOI: 10.1214/19-AOAS1261
An R-squared Statistic for Covariance Model Selection in the Linear Mixed Model
BC Jaeger, LJ Edwards, MJ Gurka
Journal of Applied Statistics, 46 (1), 164-184
N/A
2019
- Citations: 2
- DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2018.1466869
ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award
An R-squared Statistic for Fixed Effects in the Generalized Linear Mixed Model
BC Jaeger, LJ Edwards, K Das, & PK Sen
Journal of Applied Statistics, 44 (6), 1086-1105
N/A
2017
- Citations: 153
- DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2016.1193725